Post: #126

Pistorius' bail extended, sentencing scheduled for October 13th:
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Oscar_...r-20140912

Oscar's legal bill is going to be sky high, because as soon as the formal trial is over, a civil suit from the Steenkamp family is going to kick in. Also, it appears there is plenty of room for the State to appeal, so this case can be dragged out for a long time:
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Oscar_...p-20140914

Post: #127

Sentencing will take place this week. Oscar's lawyers want house arrest to be his punishment.

Post: #128

Oscar going away for five years. Justice prevails!

Post: #129

Five years is very lenient. Will still have decades of life to enjoy, and she doesn't.

Shooting her through the door probably because she was trying to separate or the like verges on premeditated murder--murder 1. No way he thought a burglar was in his bathroom when he knew she was around.

Post: #130

(09-12-2014 09:23 AM)Blackwell Wrote:  My gut feeling is that he murdered her. That it was a row that got out of hand and he just capped her through the door in the heat of the moment.

I think that might be 2nd degree murder that you're describing. Where you want to kill the person, but it wasn't a coldly planned scheme showing ongoing will to kill.

I think manslaughter or culpable homicide is when you lose your temper and just go off but don't really mean to kill the person.

It kind of sounds more like murder 2 to me but he also is going to get some sympathy that he didn't have a record and he's disabled.

Post: #131

What Oscar did was wrong. But what can we learn from this?

Let's look at this as an example of an accomplished player who lost it in the endgame. Ultimately, he let the girl control his emotions somehow.

Do you think he got tired of being treated as an oddity by the girls he dated? Did they not take him seriously?

I think he was basically a power tripping asshole, but what exactly made him snap?

Post: #132

He'll do a year max for good behavior.

Post: #133

(10-21-2014 04:32 PM)Kingsley Davis Wrote:  He'll do a year max for good behavior.

His defence said they expect him to serve ten months in prison. Fucking joke.

Post: #134

Lawyer Game Strong

Post: #135

Officials recommend Pistorius release from prison on Aug. 21

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Prison officials have recommended that Oscar Pistorius, who killed his girlfriend, be released from prison Aug. 21 for good behavior after serving just 10 months and be moved to house arrest, the head of correctional services said on Monday.

The news emerged the same day the country's Supreme Court of Appeal announced the prosecution's appeal against Pistorius' acquittal on a murder charge for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp would be heard in November.

Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic athlete, was found guilty of culpable homicide for shooting Steenkamp multiple times through a closed toilet door in his home in 2013. He was sentenced to five years in prison. Under South African law, he is eligible to be released under conditions after serving one-sixth of his sentence, which is 10 months in this case.

Acting National Commissioner of Correctional Services Zach Modise said Monday that a prison committee recommended last week that Pistorius be released from the prison in Pretoria on Aug. 21, exactly 10 months after he was sentenced and meaning he will have served the minimum amount of jail time his sentence required.

Modise said the committee made the recommendation on the basis of Pistorius' good behavior in the Kgosi Mampuru II prison in the capital, Pretoria, where he has been incarcerated since Oct. 21.

''He's behaving himself very well,'' Modise said. ''He hasn't given us any problems.''

Correctional Services spokesman Manelisi Wolela said the exact conditions of Pistorius' house arrest wouldn't be made public.

The prison's parole board had not yet made the final decision to release Pistorius, and the world-famous runner must ''keep behaving well'' to be released, Modise said.

If released, Pistorius would be under strict probation conditions and would be monitored, Modise said. He said authorities would consider allowing him to begin training again.

However, Pistorius will also again face the possibility of a minimum of 15 years in prison if a panel of judges at the Supreme Court of Appeal overturns the original decision in his murder trial and convicts him of murder.

The court has not yet set an exact date for the start of the appeal, court registrar Paul Myburgh said, but it will be this November.

Last year, prosecutors appealed the decision by trial Judge Thokozile Masipa to find Pistorius guilty of the lesser charge, saying he should have been convicted of murder for shooting four times through the toilet cubicle door, killing Steenkamp. In December, Masipa granted prosecutors permission to appeal her finding at the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Myburgh said chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel and defense lawyer Barry Roux had already met with the president of the court.

Some of the details of the appeal hearing have been ironed out: Prosecutors must submit their court papers outlining their argument by Aug. 17. Pistorius' defense team must submit its response by Sept. 17, Myburgh said.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/officials-r...--spt.html

Post: #136

What's the point of prison sentences if you can get released after serving only 16% of it?

Post: #137

The State appealed the initial conviction and are starting a new trial against him later this year. November I think.

So another round. I'm pretty sure he is already broke. The house and cars are gone, for sure. Wonder if any competent lawyer would take his case pro-bono?

Post: #138

The Supreme Court of Appeal has overturned the original sentence of culpable homicide. Oscar is now officially guilty of murder.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/1...s-20151203

A new sentencing is therefore in the pipeline. Murder in South Africa has a minimum sentence of 15 years, which may be reduced under 'compelling reasons'.

Post: #139

If he gets 15 years, won't he be able to get out in another year after after serving one-sixth of his sentence?

Post: #140

I see the bro got sentenced to six years jail.

Post: #141

Six years in jail and a human life is a terrible loss, but at least firearms instructors now have a world-famous case to cite when teaching people to identify their fucking target.

Post: #142

Anything to get Hillary's FBI scandal off the front page I suppose...

Post: #143

Oscar Pistorius story does NOT add up! I believe he killed his girlfriend because she was going to dump him because she was pregnant for his friend - this is a case of the "murderous" jealous boyfriend that could not handle being dumped.

Post: #144

You gotta be a fucking ninja to sneak into one of those compounds undetected.

Post: #145

(07-06-2016 04:47 AM)Mr. Ripley Wrote:  I see the bro got sentenced to six years jail.

It is in addition to what he has already served, so in total it 7 years and a bit.

Post: #146

Game saves lives.